Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this tandem was soon split up, as Petruccelli was taken out of action by a hard slide tackle that knocked him out of the first half action...
...concocted the shameful version of reform that became law last week, Wilson sees both sides of the welfare dilemma. He has no quarrel with the need to do away with welfare as we knew it by moving recipients to jobs. Indeed, he considers it vital to arrest the long slide of the ghetto poor into dependence and pathology. But Wilson asks a simple question for which Clinton and the Republicans have so far provided only the vaguest of answers: Where are these jobs going to come from? He raised the question again in a memorandum that he faxed to Clinton...
Thereafter, things very gradually slide downhill, except for the introduction of Elaine, the ex-nurse and one or two other details. The polite reason to give would be that Johansson and Palladino play their characters a little too thoroughly...
...voters said Clinton and Dole have what it takes to be a good President compared with those who liked Perot. (Only 22% feel that way about the Texan now, down from 35% in May 1992.) In a three-way race, just 13% said they would vote for Perot, a slide from 19% last September. The major-party candidates seem to have concluded that the American public has sampled radical change in the past two elections and not much liked its taste. Nor, perhaps, do most Americans see the need to tinker with a strong economy. Things are going well...
...plummeted for the third time in seven sessions Monday, as investors moved to insulate themselves from new earnings disappointments and a possible interest rate hike. The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its fourth-worst point drop ever, falling 161.05 points to close at 5,349.51. That represents its steepest slide since March 8 and its lowest close since late January. The Dow has now shed 7.4 percent from its record high of 5,778.00 on May 22. The technology-heavy Nasdaq index plunged 43.60 to 1,059.89 -- the equivalent of a 220-point drop in the Dow -- and is down...